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Welcome to SmartCode Central The SmartCode is a model transect-based development code available for all scales of planning, from the region to the community to the block and building. The code is intended for local calibration to your town or neighborhood. As a form-based code, the SmartCode keeps towns compact and rural lands open, while reforming the destructive sprawl-producing patterns of separated use zoning. SmartCode Central collects all the important components of transect-based planning in one place. We provide files of the latest versions of the model SmartCode and supplementary Modules, including new sustainability standards. We also link to calibrators, attorneys, and town planners who do significant work with the SmartCode. The SmartCode was released by Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company (DPZ) in 2003, after two decades of research and implementation. The code is open source and free of charge. The non-profit Center for Applied Transect Studies (CATS) was founded in 2007 to promote understanding of the built environment as part of the natural environment, through the planning methodology of the rural-to-urban transect. The SmartCode is the foundational tool for implementation of this methodology. All diagrams ©DPZ & Co. |
The 2008 SmartCode v9 and Manual is now available from New Urban News Publications. |
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